Chapter 2 – Knuckles's Unanswered Question

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Rune EX: Note much to say here other than thanks for the reviews! And KalO, Red's still locked in the closet, thank god. Hopefully he's being injected with about 100 ccs of liquefied Ritalin.

Red: WHEEEEEEEEEEEE! Breaks out of closet and holding many needles in his hands, starts to throw them around randomly at people. Yes these are the liquefied Ritalin filled ones. FREEEEEEEEEEEDOM! HI KALO! keeps running around hyperly
Rune EX: Damnit. One second folks. Takes out an over sized butterfly net I have to sedate, The Hyper Red Demon Fox, again. starts to chase after Red GET BACK HERE! Disclaimer: Sega and Sonic Team own, Topaz, Rouge, Knuckles, Sonic and Tails.

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Gotta get a hold of my life. – Kaz Silver, Believe in Myself

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Knuckles the Echidna, the guardian of the Master Emerald and Angel Island, and an accomplished martial artist, was currently hanging out with two of the few people that can be consider his friends. He was in a coffee shop in the mall. Yet he didn't really care. His mind was not on his first mocha cappuccino nor was he paying attention to it. Because of that he missed a certain tan fox dump about 10 packets of sugar into it already. His mind was on what happened on the ARK.

Flashback

"So Rouge, you going to go after those emeralds you love?" Knuckles had asked her.

"Nah. It's too much work for too little pay. Besides I found something else I have my eye on." Was Rouge simple reply. Knuckles was looking at her with a puzzle expression. He couldn't tell, but he thought she was blushing a bit at him. It had to be a trick of the light. Rouge didn't have a crush on him right?

"Whatever." Was Knuckles reply, though he was infinitely curious on what she ment?

End Flashback

Was she really talking about me? Does she like me like that? Knuckles was thinking. And suddenly he felt he was being poke in the shoulder. He tried to ignore the finger and go back to thinking about Rouge, but the poking wouldn't stop. Finally he had enough and grabbed the finger. "WHAT? WHAT THE HELL IS SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU HAVE TO POKE ME, YOU BLUE ANNOYANCE?" Knuckles yelled at the Blue Blur, starting to crush the finger in his grip.

Sonic winced, sipped a bit of his coffee, black, no sugar or cream, and said "Drink your cappuccino before it gets cold. It tastes better that way Rad Red."

Knuckles glared at him, let go of the finger, suspecting something was up but drank a mouthful of it. He made a face and painfully swallowed it. "BLEH!"

Tails was cracking up and asked innocently. "What's the matter Knuckles?"

"Too...sweet..." He stammered out, trying to sit still in his chair and kept his new sunglasses from falling off the top of his head. "I thought you said it would taste good."

Sonic shrugged. "Mocha cappuccino's do. Well they do before 50 packets of sugar are put in it." Sonic said, looking at Tails. He took another sip of coffee and with his free hand grabbed Knuckles by his dread locks as he made a lunged for Tails. "No beating up on the kid today."

Knuckles grumbled as he sat back in his chair. "Well at least the new security system he designed for the Master Emerald works." With that Sonic sputtered as his eyes went wide and Tails started to burst out laughing. "What?"

"Hehehehehe, Knucklehead. You may want to stay away from Rouge for a while." Sonic Said as he chuckled. "Tails video-taped everything and sent it to G.U.N. She's going to be pretty pissed." Tails and Sonic laughed for a few minutes as Knuckles face went white.

The trio's face drained of color as they heard, "KNUCKLES AND TAILS! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Coming from behind them

To be continued.

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Red: R&R OR I WILL GIVE YOU RITILIN IN LIQUIFED FORM! MWEHEHEEHHE!
Rune EX: ACK! I NEED HELP!